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Diverticular disease of the small bowel: a rare cause of the duodenojejunal flexure obstruction (a case report)
- Source :
- Pan African Medical Journal; Vol. 38 No. 1 (2021), The Pan African Medical Journal
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- African Field Epidemiology Network, 2021.
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Abstract
- The small bowel is the least common site for diverticula in the entire gastro-intestinal tract. Chronic upper intestinal obstruction due to diverticula is very rare. We report a case of multiple small bowel diverticula causing mechanical obstruction of the duodenojejunal flexure.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
business.industry
General surgery
digestive, oral, and skin physiology
General Medicine
Small bowel diverticula
urologic and male genital diseases
Duodenojejunal flexure
digestive system
digestive system diseases
medicine.anatomical_structure
Diverticula
gastrointestinal obstruction
medicine
Diverticular disease
case report
small intestine
business
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 19378688
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Pan African Medical Journal
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....1c437ddbb292823d1424b7853b28a257